NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 2GB Review - GK104 at $250

Sleeping Dogs

Welcome to Hong Kong, a vibrant neon city teeming with life, whose exotic locations and busy streets hide one of the most powerful and dangerous criminal organizations in the world: the Triads. In this open world game, you play the role of Wei Shen, an undercover cop trying to take down the Triads from the inside out. You'll have to prove yourself worthy as you fight your way up the organization, taking part in brutal criminal activities without blowing your cover. Torn between your loyalty to the badge and a criminal code of honor, you will risk everything as the lines between truth, loyalty and justice become permanently blurred

Our settings for Sleeping Dogs

While the GTX 760 and the HD 7950 Boost are basically tied at the 1920x1080 resolution the larger frame buffer of the HD 7950 (3GB vs. 2GB) appears to make a bigger difference at 2560x1440 where it is able to get a 14% advantage – it’s first of the day! The perf advantage over the GTX 770 over the GTX 760 is 38% here.

I was wondering what FPS were you getting on the games tested, also, what are the benefits of getting a 4GB version over a 2GB version. EVGA (Just for ease of knowing which card I'm getting) :) Thanks!

Thanks for reading man! I wanted to include new games here but just ran out of time. Honestly, the Frame Rating process is much more time consuming than most other websites reviews so I am somewhat limited on what we can do.

Here's to hoping that cloning is possible and legal soon. Even with supreme multi-tasking skills that would envy a kardashian, these days are just too damn short to do half the stuff needed. I have double our staff, hired a dozen interns, automated almost everything possible, and here I am spending half my morning just checking WHICH emails I can reply to LATER. So I hear that brother.

Also, I disagree with the above. I think you just need to focus on your main new project. Oh that reminds me, need to give you guys some money, please look out for an email from us. We have been meaning to support your new studio project and everything just waiting for BossTek financials to come back.

The first thing we suggest when we get asked for tech advice is, "head over to PCPER, your answers are probably in there."

In stead of asking where is this, or where is that? May I suggest you do some testing on your own? Just saying. Not trying to be a jackass here. Can't afford to do that? Get a better job perhaps? Again, NOT trying to be a jackass. The card JUST came out. I was at EVGA yesterday in Brea, and even I have to wait until today to do overclocking, so if you do not want to wait a few hours for the overclocking review, you could perhaps just order the card, and test it yourself. Then you do not have to wait.

(We have a new testing partner program, email me Michael@Boss-Tek.com if you are interested in being a tester for us/EVGA).

I do not write a ton of comments, however after looking at
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I do have a couple of questions for you if it's okay.
Is it just me or do some of these responses come across like they are
written by brain dead individuals? :-P And, if you are posting on other social sites, I would
like to keep up with you. Could you post a list of every one of all your social community pages like your Facebook page, twitter feed, or linkedin profile?

760 looks stellar when looking up from the bottom BUT I have a few glaring things when crunching the numbers..

A. Can't help but feel they are trying to shift this market higher with this SKU just based off the fact that its "called" a 760 and its not $200

B. "NVIDIA seems to have avoided the issue of the GTX 680/GTX 670 where price differences did not match up with the performance differences" ....the question is tho did they have a choice on the 660 in regards to your statement, I don't think so because they knew they couldn't have a 660 be too good else they woulda called it the 660 ti.

Get used to it food has doubled here since our Okong took to trashing the little people's world economy...

So be thankful it's not the new doubled to $400 USD category.

I think the only thing saving us from that is the general reduction in computer component prices over time.

In systems we've had a steady large increase in perf with steady drops in prices - that area is going to rise soon too I'd bet.

Now foreign junk in the stores is getting pricy.

So without the general more for less in the technology curve we'd really be paying more on these vidcards - expecting the next gen for the same price is going bye bye - slower than nearly everything else.

The GTX 760 really seems to hit the sweet spot of performance and price. Anyone have any input on how much of an upgrade this will be coming from a GTX 480? I only game 1920x1080, and the GTX 480 (with a mild overclock) still plays the majority of my games maxed out at a solid 60fps...

Main reason I am interested in a GTX 760 is, I think I may pick up an Nvidia Shield. My GTX 480 does not support the PC streaming feature on the Shield.

Thanks for the reply, Ryan. I'm assuming that the power consumption and noise levels are going to be a major upgrade from my GTX 480 (even if the performance gain is minimal)... I'll probably be pocking up one no matter what, because of my interest in the Shield. Seems like the most cost effecive way to get me into that. One more question, do you think a 650w (80+ gold cert) power supply would be enough to push two GTX 760's SLI?

Ryan...my AMD 4850 plays my 1080p games fairly well. Would this card do me any good or should I shoot for the 670-680 range ?
I want to keep my 500 watt power supply and not interested in running dual cards.

I would say that you are due for an upgrade, if only to take advantage of new technology and better power efficiency/thermals/noise. a 760, 660Ti, or AMD 7950 should be enough horsepower to drive 1080p gaming. I'm not sure where the 4850 stands with the newer gen cards off hand, however.

If you found a chance to read the latest podcast comments you will know how much respect I have for you. That being said, I am not loving this abstruse testing data, though it might be that my mind is too obtuse to deal with it. It seems that outside of amd crossfire, and sometimes nvidia sli, testing results for the observed fps verse fraps track very well. I feel as if all these graphs are overkill and beating a dead dog. You have already made a monumental impact in the industry by getting amd to own up to the issue and address it. But I feel it makes for a not very readable review; and less so instructive outside of your conclusions. It would also have been nice if you could have compared in a simple table--cores, memory, memory width, for instance--between the different nvidia cards.

I am apparently the odd one out here, but consider what I am saying. Remember, I think what have done with frame rating is tremendous.

You mentioned that the ACX cooler isn't much quieter at all than the reference cooler. However don't the reference coolers have a different sound character? I've heard that the fan motors tend to produce a very faint grinding sound, whereas I'm assuming these open fans only sound like air blowing through heat fins. What was your impression of the sounds?

Why do I have the feeling that this bosstek guy is just a mouthy kid living in a make believe land, And he acts like he has these connections and a made up business. I swear my gut tells me this guy lives with his mom, And his mom buys him cool computer parts when he whines and begs or throws a fit to get them. Then with all his parts he then creates a website, And then he poses like he is a big business man and makes empty promises he never keeps. But in his mind he kept the promises. My gut also tells me when he gets a product from Nvidia or Corsair in his mind he thinks he is a partner. I knew a guy like this back in high school. I have seen this behavior before. And all the tell tell signs are very present.